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		<title>The Stirrings (snicker).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re reading The Giver now. &#8220;This book is weird.&#8221; &#8220;Duh. I told you that before I handed it out. For you guys, if it isn&#8217;t weird, it&#8217;s &#8216;boring.&#8217;&#8221; I was waiting for the, &#8220;It&#8217;s weird and boring,&#8221; but it didn&#8217;t come. Phew. Last year was the first year I taught it, and I didn&#8217;t even finish it out, because I had a student teacher last year, and she took over after chapter 6 or so. So, this is virgin (snicker) territory for me. It&#8217;s kind of fun figuring things out for the first time, and I really like this book. I love blowing their minds. (If you have any groovy ideas or suggestions, I&#8217;m all ears, as they used to say.) Related aside: If you have time and the inclination, check out We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was supposedly the inspiration for Orwell&#8217;s 1984, Vonnegut&#8217;s Player Piano, and The Giver. I really enjoyed it. But I&#8217;m a sucker for those crazy Russian writers. Tuesday, we had read where Lily was wishing she could be assigned to be a Birthmother. After the sadness that nobody got to be with their &#8220;real&#8221; parents, the giggles started in about Lily&#8217;s vision of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But it says he!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boys are in the church cutting their hair (some of the girls visibly wince as Johnny &#8220;starts sawing&#8221; on Pony&#8217;s hair with the same knife he used on Bob) and killing time with Gone With the Wind. We&#8217;re talking about irony and Richard Cory. We go through the poem, and I keep the fourth stanza hidden from them. They laugh when they find out that &#8220;crown&#8221; means the top of your head, and that in Jack and Jill, Jack really breaks his head. I explain that &#8220;clean favoured&#8221; means good looking, and they are quick to realize why the poet used &#8220;quietly&#8221; to describe how he is dressed (&#8220;arrayed&#8217;). &#8220;It means he&#8217;s not showing off.&#8221; Good. They are also pretty good at getting what &#8220;he was always human when he talked&#8221; means. Seventh graders are very quick to spot someone &#8220;putting on airs&#8221; as they said in Tom Sawyer&#8217;s time. They tell me it means he&#8217;s down to Earth. Nice. Then, after the first three stanzas of description, I stop and ask, &#8220;Now, who, in The Outsiders could we compare to Richard Cory? Who is rich, good looking, popular, well dressed, yet down to Earth?&#8221; &#8220;Sodapop?&#8221; Rich? Well dressed. [...]]]></description>
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